Crockpot theories
One of the difficulties of theorizing pretty much on my own is that it’s a very slow process, as apparently things take a long time to heat up in my little crockpot of a brain. I just had a flash of insight about one of my models, and I suspect that it’s something that other people in my specific little niche might have seen right away, because it’s a very obvious connection between two separate literatures (if you happen to know them…..)
Oh, well, speaking of flashes, I’ve just submitted my heavily revised manuscript (“Practicing Theories: Citation Analysis for Practice Fields”) to Manuscript Central right in the middle of one of the many lightning storms and tornado watches we’ve had here in Tulsa this week. Hopefully it will electrify the reviewers as well (in a positive way— usually I just make people’s hair stand on end!)
Update: it didn’t exactly electrify them, but it’s still apparently novel and interesting enough that I do get another chance to submit another heavily revised version. One reviewer is fine with the current version, the other made lots of actually quite helpful suggestions that I will work on. No problems with the data, just the way I frame this within the literature. Now I know why people sometimes thank their anonymous reviewers so effusively!!
